October 18, 2011

Tune In Tuesday [#1]

Tune In Tuesday is hosted by Ginger and GReads! Its a way to show other bloggers what your listening to and gain more interest in it. :)

So it's Soundtrack Edition!!!!!! I should also tell everyone. For me its also High School Edition. So I graduated in May from High School. 3 out of 4 years I was in choir! I was a choir girl. I fully admit to it. Choir was my happy class. :) We did so many amazing songs in there and many were from soundtracks so I'm featuring those. :)

Seasons Of Love from Rent

I absolutely love this song!!!!!!! We did it for our last concert my Senior year and I got a Solo in it!!!!!!!! It made me so happy!!! This song has so many amazing memories for me! :D Not to mention a specific guy in my life who also happens to sing can do the guys Solo AMAZINGLY!!!!! :D :D :D 

For Good from Wicked

We also did this during my senior year. It was also the song for the seniors! We sung it for the graduating seniors (which included myself). OMG! We had so many moments during this song. I mean even one day we had a crying session pretty much. One of my other senior friends in choir, also still a close friend, would always get all sad during this song because it totally brought up the fact that we were graduating and leaving! So one day, she started crying when we were rehearsing this song, which then made me start crying (more like bawling), and when I started crying my friend Ali standing next to me started crying and then one of my besties Shay who was across from where I stood started crying! We all got so emotional during this song. But it still brings back so many good memories because even with the fact that we cried you could tell how close a lot of us in choir really were! The choir literally is my second family. I love them!

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October 06, 2011

Review: Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr

Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely #2)
Author: Melissa Marr
Publisher: Harper Teen
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
Pages: 325
Source: Paperback/Own

To 17-year-old Leslie, the tattoo is a thing of indescribable beauty, a captivating mark that she must make her own. But this subtle web of eyes and wings brings with it a transformation that no sweet young girl would ever imagine or welcome. Like its predecessor, this stand-alone sequel to Wicked Lovely plunges its youthful heroine into a faery world of almost constant peril. A tantalizing urban fantasy that won't let go.

Review: Well, I really liked this one. I liked getting to know the Dark Court more and I kind of enjoyed the darker side of things. What can I say? I'm a fan of reading dark things sometimes. So Ink Exchange's main characters are Leslie (one of Aislinns friends), Niall and Irial. I really enjoyed getting to know all of them more. In Wicked Lovely you didn't really get to know any of them so it was nice. You didn't realize how bad Leslie's life really was at home until you got to read this book. I was shocked at it and after reading about it I could understand why she wanted to get her tattoo. I also liked getting to know Niall more, especially how he got that scar! I also liked how he cared and protected Leslie so much. When I first started reading the book I didn't think that was gonna happen. Irial, gosh I just dont know what to say about him. I had mixed emotions about him throughout the book.

The Dark Court. I thought it was interesting the whole thing with the tattoos. Certain inks having Irials blood in them to bind that person to the dark court. I really didn't like the affect it had on Leslie though. She struggled so much being linked to the Dark Court and it really affected her from the girl you got to know in the beginning. All she wanted was a tattoo and a little change in her life. Not to be part of a faery court, let alone one that feeds off of her emotions at that. In all honesty I really didnt like the Dark Court much in the beginning after some of the things i read but as the story went on I softened up to it a little. 

I loved what Niall did at the end to help Leslie get free of the Dark Court. He went to both the Summer and Winter courts to ask for help in removing Irials blood from the ink. He tried so hard to protect her and even then he still needed help to finally be able to set her free. I don't blame Leslie for deciding to move after all she went through.

I would definitely recommend this to others especially if you liked the first book in the series. It shows you the side of another court and lets you get to know characters you only heard about as friends in the previous book. It also has great detail and it pulls you in and keeps you interested. :)

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October 03, 2011

Review: Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr

Radiant Shadows (Wicked Lovely #4)
Author: Melissa Marr
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication Date: April 20, 2010
Pages: 340
Source: Hardcover/Own

Hunger for nourishment.
Hunger for touch.

Hunger to belong.
Half-human and half-faery, Ani is driven by her hungers.

Those same appetites also attract powerful enemies and uncertain allies, including Devlin. He was created as an assassin and is brother to the faeries' coolly logical High Queen and to her chaotic twin, the embodiment of War. Devlin wants to keep Ani safe from his sisters, knowing that if he fails, he will be the instrument of Ani's death.

Ani isn't one to be guarded while others fight battles for her, though. She has the courage to protect herself and the ability to alter Devlin's plans—and his life. The two are drawn together, each with reason to fear the other and to fear for one another. But as they grow closer, a larger threat imperils the whole of Faerie. Will saving the faery realm mean losing each other?

Alluring romance, heart-stopping danger, and sinister intrigue combine in the penultimate volume of Melissa Marr's New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series.

Review: So Radiant Shadows is by far my fave books out of the Wicked Lovely Series. I mean don't get me wrong, the rest of the series is great too I'm just in love with this one the most. It was very detailed and with that you could picture what was happening. Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. I also love this cover the most out of the entire series. Its so beautiful with Ani on it. I also love the title. Its very creative and yet very pretty at the same time.

I really enjoyed how it was from Ani & Devlins points of view. You never really got to know a lot about them and with this book being from their point of view you learned a lot about them. I loved hearing about Ani's struggle with her hunger for emotions with her faery blood consuming her human blood. I also loved reading Devlins struggle with protecting Ani while wondering why he is feeling emotions when he never has before. It made a beautiful story. I was always a fan of Ani even in the other books even with how little we knew about her. I liked the fact that her dad was overprotective of her even though it got annoying at some points. I also liked how willing the Dark Court was to let Ani go on the run for a while after finding out what Bananach was up to. Devlin... I didn't really become a fan of Devlin until I learned of what he didn't do and the lengths he went to to protect Ani. Idk... It was just something about him being the High Courts Assassin that turned me off at first. Lol. So I loved the whole Ani & Devlin story, with Devlin finding out he can have feelings and Ani starting to learn to control her hunger for emotions. I also loved how through all the hardship they discovered how much they really didn't want to lose each other. Also, I loved how Devlin started to question his loyalties after discovering he does have feelings. That made things more interesting... Especially at the end confronting Sorcha about balancing the High Court.

Now, closer to the end of the book is where things really started becoming sad for me. After finding out what Bananach did to Ani's sister Tish I really wanted to cry. That was such a sad moment in the book. Lets state it for the record. I hate Bananach! Lol. Also, all the drama with Sorcha missing Seth and causing Faerie to fall to pieces during her sleep was fairly interesting too. Lets state it right now, Sorcha had some serious issues. Seth had only left for a short while before she fell apart even though she knew he was going to come back. I really hated that this was what Ani & Devlin had to come home to. But it did give way to an amazing ending!
I really really loved this book. As I said before, its by far my fave out of the Wicked Lovely series. I would definitely recommend this book to others, along with the whole series. 

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